8-hour day

Content about workers' struggles for a maximum 8-hour working day.

Chile workers 8 hours demonstration, 1913
Bay View Massacre memorial ceremony
The little known history of the massacre that occurred in Milwaukee, when 7,000 building workers and 5,000 Polish workers demanded the eight-hour…
Contemporary illustration of the Haymarket bomb
The history of the world holiday on the 1st May - May Day, or International Workers Day, held in commemoration of four anarchists executed for…
Tanks and soldiers in Glasgow, Feb 1919
The 40 Hours strike led by the Clyde Workers' Committee was the most radical strike seen on Clydeside in terms of both its tactics and its…
Albert R. Parsons, Haymarket Martyr and anarchist on the movement for an eight-hour working day in March, 1886.